Rail securing and supporting means



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D. V. MOTT. RAIL SECURING- AND SUPPORTING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 17, l9l9.

Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL v. MOTT, or manna, nnrrrsza COLUMBIA, CANADA, ATSSIGNOR TO EDWARD er. DANIELS, or BERNIE, narrrsn COLUMBIA, CANADA.

RAIL SECURING AND 7 Application filed June 17,

.new and useful Improvements in IRail Securing and Supporting Means; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the, invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. v I

This invention relates to rail supportlng and securing means, and more part cularly to means for supporting and securing the rails ofa railroad.

One of the main objects of the inventlon is to provide comparatively simple, .but strong and durable and highly efiiclent means whereby the rails of a railway may be readily secured and supported in proper relation. v

A further object is to provide rall support ing means which may be quickly and easily laid thus permitting a railway tobe constructed much more quickly than is possible by the present method of employ1ng crossties for supporting the rails.

A further object is to provide rall supporting members which may be readily formed by bending or rolling from sheets of metal of suitable gage, these members extending the full length of the rails so as to effectively brace the same.

Further objects will appear from the de-. tailed description. 7

. In the drawings: w Figure 1 is a fragmentary top *plan view I ofa railway employing rail securing and supporting means constructed in accordance with my invention.

. Fig. 2 is a section taken line 2 2 of Fig. 1. V

Fig. 3 is a detail fragmentary sectional view taken through the rail supportlng member and associated parts Fig. 4 is a similar view of a modified form.

Fig. 5 is a section taken substantially on line 55 of Fi 3.

Fig. 6 is a ragmentary vertical section through another modified form of rail supsubstantially on porting member andassociated parts.

In practice, I provide a substantially T- shaped rail supporting member designated Specification of Letters Patent;

SUPPORTING MEANS.

Patented Sept. 28,1920. 1919., Serial No. 304,972.

generally by 1 which extends the full length of each rai A. This supporting member is formed from a sheet or plate of metal, preferably steel, of suitable gage which is formed by bending or rolling to provide a central stem 2 formed of the two parallel closely adacent arms 3. The material of the supportmg member at the upper end of each arm is turned outwardly at right angles to provide a horizontally disposed supporting plate 4 these plates forming a seat; for the' base flange 5 of the rail. 7 A suitably shaped anchor plate 6 is mounted upon the outer supporting plate 4 and is secured thereto by bolts 7, or suitable equivalent securing means. This anchor plate also, preferably, extends the full length of the rail.

' The inner arms 4 of the supporting members 1 are connected by suitable tie plates 8, the endportions of which are positioned beneath the arms. This tie plate is provided, at each end, with a-thickened portion 8 which is suitably bored and threaded to receive a securing bolt 9 inserted through an inner anchor plate 10 which is provided'with an inner offset extension 11 secured by rivets 12 or equivalent means to tie plate 8. The inner and outer anchor plates coact in the well known manner to secure the rails A in proper position upon the supporting member 1, and the tie plates 8 serve to positively maintain these rails in proper relation. As will be noted, the central plane of the stem 2 of supporting member 1 is coincident with the central plane of rail A thus effectually preventing" all rocking or side play ofthevrail.

In practice, thesupporting members 1 are placed in parallel spaced relation with the stem portions'thereof firmly embedded in the road bed. The rails, consisting of sections, are then placed upon: the supporting plates 4 of members 1 and moved into proper position to have their base flangesextended be neath the outer anchor plate 6, after which the tie plates18 are placed in position by having their end portions inserted beneath the inner supporting plates 4 so as to bring the inner anchor plate 10 into proper relation with the inner portion of the base flange of the rail, after which the securing bolts 9 are tightly secured'in position, all bolts and other securing members being tightened up to prevent looseness or play. As will be noted, the securing bolts 9, in addition to i ber illustrated in Fig. 4, the outer anchor. plate 6 is replacedby a plate 13 integral passingthrough theinner anchor plates, are

also passed through openingsin the inner supporting arms 4Athus serving to positively secure the supporting vmembers together While also securing the anchor plates in operative position. It is possible, eIn- "ploying the substantially T-shaped supporting members in the manner-stated, to lay a railway very quickly thus eii'ecting a material savingEincost of labor-over the present methodemploying'crossties of wood. Also,

it is'to be-noted that .the rails are supported throughout their whole length so as to be effectively braced and held against pound- 15 in Qrr y 7 7 n-the modified form of supporting meni- I "with'the outenarm, .etof member' 1, this plate 13- being :formed by extending the supporting ,plate:or arm's: and then folding the same downwardly land inwardly upon itself as illustrated, the plate 18 being-provided at its. inner edge :wi-th 'an integral element 14; adapted to engage about thelbase 'flange 5 of the rail.

lathe-modified form illustrated'in F .6, the iinner supporting plate ftisfielongated and folded upwardly-and inwardly upon itself to -.provide an upper supplemental sup- 7 porting plate '15' which bridges the space bfletwee'nxlthe upper. ends of the' two arms 3 of'stem 2, the outer edge of this plate 15 fitting :snugly against the element 14 at the baseithereof. 1 In this form, an' inner' anchor plate116 whicheoorrespondsto the inner anchor plate l0'islsecured-to'the inner arm a and/tie plate 8 and cooperates with element -14 to secure the base flange of. the rail in -the manner previously described. The supplemental supporting plate :151 provides a fiatnb ase which extends the 7 full tion with mine andanarrowgage railways in which the leadlis .not excessively heavy.

"Itlwillebe evident that there-may b'e-slight i changesmadein the construction and arrangement ofthedeta-ils of my invention without departing from the field and scope of thesame, and :Iin tend to include all-such variations, as fall within the scope of the appended claims, in this application in which a preferred form only of my'invention is disclosed.

What ,I claimis'z 1. lnrail securing and supporting means, supporting members ottsubstantially T- sha p e in cross section, anchor plates mounted on the outerflarms of the heads of said T-members,tie rods having their end portions inserted beneath the inner arms of the heads of the T-members, inner anchor plates carried by said'tie rods and adapted toiit over-theinner arms of the T-members, and

means for securing the inner anchor plates -.to said mner arms, said means-also serving to SGCHI'Gtl'lG-tlQ rods tothe inner arms so as to hold the supporting members in predeend of the stem .of said member and disposed in superposed relation to the head thereof for receiving and supporting the base ofa rail," f

4. In rail supporting and securingmeans, asupporting member formed from. a sheet of material bent to provide a stem and outwardly direct'ed supporting arms extending substantially at right angles from the upper :;eI1Cl of said stem at each side thereof, one of said arms being folded upwardly and inwardlyaupon itself and provided with a rail base engaging elementat its inner-edge and the other said arm being folded upwardly and inwardly upon itself and'extended across the upper-endiof the 'T so as to brace the same and provide a supporting intestimony whereof I aflixmy signature in presence of two witnesses? DANIEL 'V. "MOTT.

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B. Los'rLALINn, I

L. GARNER.

.platefor the base of a rail mounted thereon. 

